Me and Ayo were around Waterloo and to our amazement the entrance was as busy as a beehive! It also gave us a great idea that we are considering to include in our music video.
Fast motion scenes. In a previous post I mentioned how the calm instrumental is to juxtapose with the hectic busy lifestyle of Londoners. This effect will help us to achieve just that. We decided to record at an ice rink instead.
Why? Because everyone is going round and round in one direction making the motion have a smooth flow. Also, the less confident ice-skaters will obviously move slower than everyone else because they do not want to drop (even though we filmed many drops). Because the less experienced ice-skaters are moving slower than everyone else it will help you to see just how important motion is.
Later on we decided to do even more tests with Stanley and Daniel. Stanley and Daniel have been really busy with the cast and storyboard but they finally found some time to help us do some tests.
We wanted to see what effect we could get by showing time passing by.
We noticed that Ed Sheeran's 'A-Team' used the fast motion scenes as well. But in his video he has fast motion scenes with a still/ slower moving character - it gave us the idea to have our actors moving in normal motion but everything else faster (giving the impression that they are in their own world).
We put it to the test, and once again, things did not work out as well as we hoped it would. Ayo is the person you see walking towards the camera. What we tried to do was have fast motion vehicles but Ayo in normal motion. Therefore we tried to get around it by having Ayo walk extremely slow in real-time, so that when we sped up the footage it would look like he's walking normally. Unfortunately Ayo's movements do not look natural enough and its too hard to acheive this way.
Next we tried to have two layers of the same video. The top layer would have normal untouched footage and the second layer would be sped up footage of the vehicles. Again, we couldn't get around it. The lighting between the two layers conflict and shadows do not match with the timing.
Finally, we came to a conclusion. Fast motion scenes are great but we have dropped the idea of having slower moving characters. Although, our media technician told us we could achieve the effect by using a green screen: the green screen would show the sped up vehicles passing by and then have the actual characters recorded in front of the green screen. However, we would need a pretty big green screen and would have to resize both footages to match real life proportions. We would also have to include other features like shadows to make it look believable. On that note we completely withdrew the idea of having slow moving characters. Maybe we will include still characters instead.
As for now, I think its best we just stick to fast motion scenes with just vehicles no characters as you can see in the video above.
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